[Openstack-operators] Need help with adding instance with fixed ip in external network with out using private and floating ip.

George Paraskevas paraskgeor at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 13:43:40 UTC 2015


Hello again,
that's great! As for the method you mentioned i haven't tried it but i will
just to see what happens.

Thanks again
George

On 31 October 2015 at 15:29, Geo Varghese <gvarghese at aqorn.com> wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> I just tried your method and it seems working perfectly :)
>
> Thanks for your valuable inputs.
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Geo Varghese <gvarghese at aqorn.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> Thanks for the update. Yes, you are right that is the exact requirement.
>>
>> "assign ip from that network directly to the instance with out the use of
>> a private net and floating ip over nat"
>>
>> I got a update about external network like this from list. Thats why i
>> tried it like that.
>>
>> ==========================================================
>>  A Neutron router can also be attached to the same network so that
>> instances in non-routable tenant networks can obtain floating IPs from the
>> same 'public' network. At one time non-admin users were not allowed to
>> attach VMs to 'external' networks but I believe that restriction was
>> removed around Kilo or so.
>>
>> Yes, as long as the network is marked as both 'shared' and external, a
>> tenant can attach VMs and router gateway interfaces directly to it.
>> ==========================================================
>>
>> According to your inputs, the above method is not correct right?
>>
>>
>> And about the method of adding bridge to compute node, do we need to add
>> following options?
>>
>> bridgemapping in ml2 conf
>> enable_distributed_routing to true
>>
>> Thanks again for your time.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 2:20 PM, George Paraskevas <paraskgeor at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> From what I understand you want to assign ip from that network directly
>>> to the instance with out the use of a private net and floating ip over nat.
>>> Now you need to correct some things and you will be quite there. First when
>>> you create an external network then that network can only work though
>>> floating ip. So instead create the same net but don't mark it as external.
>>> Also you need that bridge on compute nodes because the VM nic will bind
>>> directly to it. So don't configure l3 agent just configure ml mapping for
>>> that network. I hope you can under stand and I also hope I understood you.
>>> Thanks
>>> George
>>>
>>> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, 08:43 Geo Varghese <gvarghese at aqorn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Team,
>>>>
>>>> I need help with adding instance with fixed ip in external network with
>>>> out using private and floating ip.
>>>>
>>>> I have tested it using following steps
>>>>
>>>> 1) Created a new nic - eth4 for new external network(192.168.122.0/24)
>>>> in controller.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Created a bridge - br-ex2 and added eth4 as port to bridge.
>>>>
>>>> 3) Mapped this bridge in ml2 conf and restarted l3 agent and neutron
>>>> plugin
>>>>
>>>> 4) Then added shared external network Ext2 in openstack. Then added
>>>> subnet as  192.168.122.0/24
>>>>
>>>> 5) Added it to the router- router2 as interface with a IP -
>>>> 192.168.122.99. Network topology shows the interface is active with this
>>>> IP. Ping to this ip is also working from other machines.
>>>>
>>>> Later created VM in this network, but it failed with following error in
>>>> nova-compute log.
>>>>
>>>> =========================================================
>>>> Unable to mount image
>>>> /var/lib/nova/instances/903a6630-941c-4fd0-948f-85522fa20979/disk with
>>>> error libguestfs installed but not usable (/usr/bin/supermin-helper exited
>>>> with error status 1.
>>>> ==========================================================
>>>>
>>>> Please check attached screen shot of network topology.
>>>>
>>>> Please help me with your inputs.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Geo Varghese
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Geo Varghese
>>
>
>
>
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> Regards,
> Geo Varghese
>
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